“Birds of Prey” and the Fantabulous Emancipation from the DCEU
Birds of Prey has some of the best stunt work and choreography of 2020, and was the most fun I’d had in an action film since John Wick 3.

Danila and Olesya are a couple in crisis who don’t know what to do with their marriage. Spouses create fictitious accounts on a dating app and start communicating with other people, without even realizing that they are having a dialogue with each other. Will they be able to save their marriage and fall in love with each other again?
Birds of Prey has some of the best stunt work and choreography of 2020, and was the most fun I’d had in an action film since John Wick 3.
The film is bogged down with one-off rain monster threats that always come to a quick and undramatic end
Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.
2026 ranks highest in Oscars history for its representation of minorities in all categories, and that’s definitely something to be celebrated.
Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.
Here's what Disney got wrong with "Aladdin" and how it can avoid those pitfalls with "Hercules."